The 8th Tea of Christmas . . . (And YES I’m very well aware of how behind I am on these! LOL)
I’ve had several pots of this particular tea by now & every time I taste it, I’m surprised at how much I love it. Mostly because – while I adore lemon teas, I’m not always such a huge raspberry fan. I don’t hate them, but if I were to create a top 10 list of my favorite fruits, I don’t think raspberries would be anywhere on that list, even in an honorable mention category.
But here, the combination of raspberry & lemon works so well. The “Linzer” part of the blend is more or less a nod to my inspiration behind this tea. I wasn’t actually trying to create a “cookie” tea, mostly because so many of my teas in this year’s box are baked good flavored – gingerbread coffeecake, spiced snowflake cookie, tangerine cupcake & the one that was just announced for today, Christmas eve: candy cane marshmallow treat genmaicha. So I mostly just used the idea of a Linzer cookie as an inspiration & rather than trying to nail the flavor of a linzer cookie, I just added some vanilla bean & even a little bit of cotton candy which when added to the tea while it “cures” becomes crystalized & crumbles into little tiny sugary bits.
Anyway, I love the way it all turned out. It’s sweet, it’s bright & pleasantly tart & fruity. A tasty cuppa!
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Wow, I’m surprised you don’t love raspberries, because you do raspberry teas so well! :D
@Kelmishka – thank you! I don’t hate raspberries, but I don’t love them either. They are definitely not my go-to fruit for teas (that would be bananas, lol – at least for teas. I like bananas OK as a stand-alone fruit but love, LOVE, love banana teas.) I think I probably enjoy raspberry teas more than I enjoy the actual fruit, because I dislike the whole raspberry seeds getting caught in my teeth thing. I will eat them if they’re part of a dish/dessert (like pavlova, which is my favorite dessert, and my daughter will often include raspberries as part of it.) I will not go out of my way to get something that is raspberry, if that makes sense.
I now feel very validated about not tasting a pastry note :-D
Wow, I’m surprised you don’t love raspberries, because you do raspberry teas so well! :D
@Kelmishka – thank you! I don’t hate raspberries, but I don’t love them either. They are definitely not my go-to fruit for teas (that would be bananas, lol – at least for teas. I like bananas OK as a stand-alone fruit but love, LOVE, love banana teas.) I think I probably enjoy raspberry teas more than I enjoy the actual fruit, because I dislike the whole raspberry seeds getting caught in my teeth thing. I will eat them if they’re part of a dish/dessert (like pavlova, which is my favorite dessert, and my daughter will often include raspberries as part of it.) I will not go out of my way to get something that is raspberry, if that makes sense.
I now feel very validated about not tasting a pastry note :-D